I. Definition of health education
Health education is a planned, organized and systematic social education activity, which enables people to consciously adopt healthy behaviors and lifestyles, eliminate or reduce risk factors that affect health, prevent diseases, promote health, improve the quality of life, and evaluate the effect of education.
The core of health education is to educate people to establish health awareness, urge people to change unhealthy behavior lifestyle and develop good behavior lifestyle, so as to reduce or eliminate risk factors affecting health.
Second, the purpose of education
1. Improve people's health and enable individuals and groups to achieve health goals.
2. Improve and keep healthy.
3. Prevent abnormal deaths, diseases and disabilities.
4, improve interpersonal relationships, enhance people's self-care ability, make them get rid of superstition, abandon bad habits, develop good hygiene habits, and advocate a civilized, healthy and scientific lifestyle.
5. Strengthen the concept of health, so as to understand, support and advocate health policies and a healthy environment.
Third, the educational significance.
Health education is to improve people's health awareness, make people understand some basic health knowledge (basic contents and implementation methods), and develop scientific, civilized and healthy living habits. Every community member should face health education.